The chat will start when you send the first message.
1Wisdom is the book of God’s commandments,
the law that endures forever.
Those who keep her will live;
those who forsake her will die.
2Come back, O Jacob, and take hold of wisdom;
walk in the light of her brightness.
3Do not give your honor to another,
nor your privileges to a foreign people.
4We rejoice, O Israel,
because we know what pleases God.
5Take courage, my people,
who keep Israel’s name alive.
6It was not for your destruction
that you were sold to the Gentiles.
It was because you provoked God
that you were handed over to your enemies.
7You angered your Creator
by sacrificing to demons rather than to God.
8You have forgotten the eternal God, who brought you up,
and you have grieved Jerusalem, the city that reared you.
9For Jerusalem saw the wrath of God that came upon you,
and she said, “Listen, all you who live near Zion.
God has brought great sorrow upon me,
10for I have seen my sons and daughters being taken captive.
The Eternal One allowed them to suffer this.
11I nourished them with joy,
but I sent them away weeping and mourning.
12Let no one rejoice over me, a widow
forsaken by many.
I was left alone because of the sins of my children,
for they abandoned the law of God.
13They have not heeded his laws
or followed his commandments
or taken the paths of justice that God showed them.
14Let those who live near Zion come
and remember the captivity of my sons and daughters,
which the Eternal One allowed them to suffer.
15For he brought a distant nation against them,
a wicked nation that spoke a strange language.
They had no respect for the aged
and no pity on children.
16They carried away the widow’s beloved sons
and deprived her of her daughters.
17“But as for my part, what help can I give you?
18Only he who allowed you to suffer these disasters
can deliver you from your enemies.
19Go your way, my children, go your way,
for I am left alone.
20I have taken off the robe of peace
and put on the sackcloth of one crying out to God.
I will cry to the Eternal One all my days.
21“Take courage, my children, and cry out to God.
He will deliver you from the oppression of your enemies.
22For I have put my hope in the Eternal One to save you.
Joy has come upon me from the Holy One
because of the mercy that will soon come to you
from your everlasting Savior.
23Although I sent you away with mourning and weeping,
God will bring you back to me
with joy and gladness forever.
24For as those who live near Zion have seen your captivity,
so will they soon see God’s deliverance.
It will come to you with great glory
and with the splendor of the Eternal One.
25My children, endure patiently the punishment
that has come upon you from God.
Although your enemies persecute you,
you will soon see their destruction,
and you will conquer them.
26My tender children have walked rough paths,
for they were taken away like a flock seized by raiders.
27“Take courage, my children, and cry out to God,
for he who brought this upon you will remember you.
28Just you chose to stray from God,
you can seek him again with ten times the zeal.
29For he who allowed you to suffer these disasters
will bring you everlasting joy through salvation.”
30Take courage, O Jerusalem,
for he who named you will comfort you.
31Misery will come to those who have harmed you
and to those who rejoiced at your fall.
32Misery will come to the cities that enslaved your children,
to those who took your sons and daughters.
33Just as they rejoiced at your fall
and were made happy by your ruin,
so will they grieve when they themselves are made desolate.
34I will rob them of their pride in their great numbers,
and their arrogance will be turned to grief.
35Fire from the Eternal One will fall on them for many days,
and for a long time their city will be inhabited only by demons.
36Look to the east, O Jerusalem,
and see the joy that is coming from God.
37Look! The children you sent away are now returning,
coming from the east to the west.
They are coming at the command of the Holy One,
rejoicing in the glory of God.